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ST. MARTINVILLE -- A correctional officer with the St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office suspected of bring contraband int the St. Martin Parish jail was arrested Friday, the Sheriff's Office reported. Story Continued Below. Keland Andre Simmons, 23, of Lafayette was booked into jail Friday on counts ofÃÂ ...

Katrina Denise Turner, 38, of Natchez, was arrested Wednesday after a K-9 search of employees revealed a leafy substance believed to be Spice, a form or synthetic marijuana, in an envelope in her car, which was parked at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, MississippiÃÂ ...

ST MARTINVILLE, La. (KLFY) - A St. Martin Parishcorrectional officer was arrested and accused of malfeasance and bringing contraband into the St Martin Parish Correctional Center. According to Major Ginny Higgins with the St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office, Keland Simmons was arrested and chargedÃÂ ...

VICTORVILLE -- Authorities arrested an officer at the federal correctional complex here on charges of sexually abusing two female inmates. Apolonio Gamez, 40, of Lake Elsinore, was arrested Thursday after he was charged with one count of sexual abuse of a ward at the Federal Correctional InstitutionÃÂ ...

FILE - This May 9, 2011 file photo shows the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish, La. A transgender woman who tried to visit her incarcerated brother claims Louisiana prison officers at the facility ordered her to remove her underwear and told her she would have to reveal herÃÂ ...

Nelson filed the federal suit against the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections. It accuses several unnamed prison guards of violating her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. Department of Corrections spokesman Ken Pastorick said the department doesn'tÃÂ ...

Governor Henry McMaster considers what's happening at our prisons a state emergency. The state guard will soon join prison guards to help keep cell phones, drugs and guns from being smuggled into prison, as corrections make more arrests. Kadeem Cobb is in jail tonight. Corrections officials say they caught him tossingÃÂ ...

"Next man up" is a phrase traditionally associated with the football field, but increasingly it's echoing through the halls of our nation's prisons. Through a process called "augmentation," the Federal Bureau of Prisons routinely forces its noncustodial employees -- think nurses, teachers, cooks and secretariesÃÂ ...

... prison guards at a maximum federal facility in Edmonton, Alberta have filed a $43.4 million lawsuit containing accusations of violent behaviour by male colleagues including sexual assault and waterboarding. A statement of claim filed with the court filed against the Union of Canadian Correctional OfficersÃÂ ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A veterancorrectional officer was charged with attempting to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at the Dark Lady nightclub over the weekend. Providence Police arrested Iris Rodriguez Jones, 48, on Sunday night, after she allegedly tried to use a fake bill to pay the cover charge at theÃÂ ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A veterancorrectional officer was charged with attempting to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at the Dark Lady nightclub over the weekend. Providence Police arrested Iris Rodriguez-Jones, 48, on Saturday night, after she allegedly tried to use a fake bill to pay the cover charge at theÃÂ ...

Per a Des Moines Register report, Iowahigh schoolbasketball official Jim Bice is also a correctional officer at Fort Dodge Correctional Facility in Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he is known as "Ref" and occasionally asked to lend his expertise to prison yard basketball games. His intimate knowledge of both highÃÂ ...

"Any infraction committed on a correctional officer -- we take it very seriously," Hedrick said. "Fights are common in prisons, and that job is not for every man. I commend our correctional officers for their work." Hedrick said medical professionals would test Merritt for various health anomalies to make sure theÃÂ ...

"I want to ask (BOP) Director (Mark) Inch and Attorney General Sessions exactly how much is a correctional officer's life worth," he said. Inch is scheduled to testify Friday before the House Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Subcommittee in Washington. The committee will examine theÃÂ ...

According to our sister station WRAL, a correctional officer at the Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City was assaulted on Thursday. Reports say the officer was treated at an urgent care clinic for non-life threatening injuries. The top two prison administrators were suspended with pay earlierÃÂ ...

The unit is supposed to have 35 correctional officers on duty, he said, but only 28 wereworking during Thursday's swing-shift, when the riot began. ... And, it says, the Yuma complex has the lowest staff vacancy rate of all state-run prisons, including no correctional officer vacancies. The agency said itÃÂ ...

Nebraska's prison system is being scrutinized closely by lawmakers and other officials because of several incidents, including two deadly riots at Tecumseh State Prison since 2015 and ongoing overcrowding throughout the system. State prison guards are often forced to work overtime to help fill shifts leftÃÂ ...

George Rodriguez, a former Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison guard, pleaded guilty to two counts of intoxicated manslaughter and to jumping bail in the death of two teenage boys. He appeared in Judge Inna Klein's 214th District Court and was sentenced,in accordance with a plea agreement,ÃÂ ...

A Lieber Correctional Institutioncorrectional officer is facing multiple charges that he brought tobacco and marijuana, classified as illegal contraband, to prisoners multiple times. Joshua Jerome Glover is charged with possession with intent to distribute, furnishing or attempting to furnish a prisoner withÃÂ ...

Guerrero is accused of hurling feces at Correctional Officer Rebecca Smith as she passed by Guerrero's cell July 20 in building 12, according to court documents used to create the following account. The substance allegedly struck Smith in the face, hair and upper body. Smith's uniform shirt was collectedÃÂ ...

A local six-week training academy for new correctional officers will get underway on April 23 at the Smith Unit in Lamesa, according to Sylvia ... correctional officer screening for potential applicants also will be offered this month at the Smith Unit by a TDCJ (Texas Department of Criminal Justice) recruiter.

The sexual abuse was common and widely known within the prison, where guards alerted one another if supervisors were approaching while they were having sex, Josh Shapiro, the state's attorney general, said. "This was not one rogue prison guard," Mr. Shapiro said at a news conference on ThursdayÃÂ ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Authorities say a South Carolinaprison guard has been arrested after he took $1,246 in bribes from an inmate. The Corrections Department says Joshua Cave was charged Tuesday with accepting a bribe and misconduct in office. Arrest warrants say inmate Levi Bing Jr. paid CaveÃÂ ...

My first job out of college did little to prepare me for my future career, but it did teach me something about power -- and that all companies should adopt a black-and-white policy when it comes to sexual contact between supervisors and their employees. At 22, I was lonely, living in a new city, and handlingÃÂ ...

Incidents at Auburn Correctional range from staff assaults to inmates holding weapons and the correctional officers union tells us its members don't feel safe. Its calling on the ... Officials report New York's correctional officer to inmate ratio is among the lowest in the country with one officer for every 3 inmates. DOCCS alsoÃÂ ...

Ex-Waupun prison guard charged with sexually abusing 6-year-old girl. TERRI PEDERSON ... Martin A. Lee, who had been employed as a correctional officer at Waupun Correctional institution, faces two felony counts of first-degree child sexual assault. He could be sentenced to up to 120 years in prison ifÃÂ ...

prison guardsmuggler Serving 3 Years Wants Home Confinement. A former Delawareprison guard sentenced to three years for smuggling drugs and cellphones to inmates is asking that he be allowed to serve the second half of his sentence on home confinement. Feb. 22, 2018, at 4:59 p.m.. prison guard SmugglerÃÂ ...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- A guard at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is in stable condition after he was stabbed "multiple times" by two inmates, including one from Cleveland, reports say. The two inmates, Greg Reinke, 37, of Cleveland, and Casey Pigge, 30, of Chillicothe, stabbed Corrections OfficerÃÂ ...

JUNEAU -- A retired correctional officer at Fox Lake Correctional entered a not guilty plea to charges of delivering pornographic magazines and cellphones to inmates. Peggy S. Noll, 58, Watertown, is charged with a felony count of delivering illegal articles to an inmate. She could face up to 3ÃÂ½ years inÃÂ ...

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Two correctional officers were treated and released after an assault at the Kentucky State Penitentiary on Wednesday morning, February 21. According to Kentucky State Police, they received a call about an assault at 7:44 a.m.. The preliminary investigation showed a correctional officer was assaulted by anÃÂ ...

Lancaster County prison officials are investigating an incident in which an inmate assaulted two correctional officers Friday. A correctional officer was determining whether an inmate had contraband, specifically commissary items for which he had not paid, when the inmate became angry, according toÃÂ ...

Nashville, Tenn. (WKRN) - Metro police have arrested a state prisoncorrectional officer who is accused of viewing child porn on his work computer. police said Randall McLendon came under scrutiny when the warden at Riverbend Maximum Security reportedly witnessed him acting suspiciously.

LUCASVILLE, OH (WOWK) - A corrections officer was attacked by an inmate at a prison in Scioto County, Ohio. According to JoEllen Smith, of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, the correctional officer was transported to a hospital after being assaulted by an inmate at Southern OhioÃÂ ...

A 22-year-old inmate at the State Correctional institution at Somerset assaulted two correction officers Thursday evening, sending both to the hospital and prompting prison officials to order a lockdown of the facility. The inmate, who is originally from Pittsburgh, was not identified Friday. Because of theÃÂ ...

A former federal prison guard was sentenced to two years in prison for taking bribes from inmates, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Albert Larry Harris, Jr., 27, of Lake County, worked at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex where he started selling drugs and tobacco products to inmates in JuneÃÂ ...

Milwaukee County -- A correctional officer attacks a child inside the Milwaukee County Juvenile Detention Center. FOX6 Investigators show you the video that's never been released. Plus, the alarming lack of action by supervisors and administrators who knew all about it. The juvenile guard was firedÃÂ ...

... the state's attorney general, said. "This was not one rogue prison guard," Mr. Shapiro said at a news conference on Thursday announcing the charges. "They took advantage of them for their own sick gratification. Then they threatened to make these inmates' lives worse if they told anyone about the abuseÃÂ ...

correctional officers at the Metcalfe Street Juvenile Detention Centre in downtown Kingston are now restive. The correctional officers are reportedly upset over unpaid travelling allowance and the delay by the Commissioner of Corrections to address the situation. One officer who didn't want to be identifiedÃÂ ...

Two correctional officers were assaulted around 8:00 a.m. Wednesday morning at the North Carolina Correctional institution for women in Raleigh, according to Jerry Higgins with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. The assault happened while the officers were making their rounds and thenÃÂ ...

SCOTT COUNTY, Ia. (KWQC) - The Scott County Jail is historically understaffed and now Sheriff Tim Lane is trying to put an end to overtime costs. Sheriff Tim Lane asked the county board of supervisors today to over-hire the current one vacant position for a correctional officer. To do this, Sheriff Lane wouldÃÂ ...

The plea came just days after Sheriff Kevin Coppinger publicly discussed efforts to train and provide safety equipment for correctional officers who respond to overdoses inside the county facility. The changes came in the wake of the officer's apparent accidental overdose on the morning of Nov. 25 -- whichÃÂ ...

TDCJ reports that the correctional officer turnover rate for the fiscal year 2017 was 28 percent, the highest it has been in recent history. The turnover rate for first-year recruits during that time was close to 42 percent. As of last Thursday, the monthly salaries for correctional officers with up to two months ofÃÂ ...

Jim Justice's proposed legislation to increase salaries for correctional officers at West Virginiaprisons, regional jails and juvenile facilities by $6,000 over three years, one sticking point came up. As drafted, funding for the increased regional jail salaries -- $7.8 million a year when fully phased in -- couldÃÂ ...

FLEMINGTON, NJ - A senior corrections officer at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility has been arrested and charged on 15 counts. Ronald Coleman Jr., 39, of Bethlehem Township, Pa., was arrested at his home following a joint investigation by the Hunterdon County prosecutor's Office Special Victims UnitÃÂ ...

Court documents filed in Cooke County on Friday accuse correctional officers Shannon Hoaglen, 41, and Derrick Day, 39, of moving to restrain a teenager due to a "rule violation" and holding him to the ground until he could "not talk, breath or move until he became unconscious; waking up dazed, confusedÃÂ ...